「お水送り」は、奈良・東大寺二月堂の「お水取り」に先立って、福井県小浜市の神宮寺で毎年3月2日に行われる、若狭に春を告げる神事です。

清められた水を白装束に身を包んだ僧侶が流します。

「お水」とは奈良・東大寺二月堂の仏前に供える「香水」のこと。

東大寺の修二会に遅れた若狭の神様が、お詫びに若狭の清水を送ると約束したという伝承に由来しています。

"Omizu-okuri" is a Shinto ritual held annually on March 2nd at Jinguji Temple in Obama City, Fukui Prefecture, preceding the "Omizutori" ritual at Todaiji Temple's Nigatsudo Hall in Nara. It heralds the arrival of spring in Wakasa.

Monks clad in white ceremonial robes pour purified water into the river.

This "water" refers to the sacred water offered before the Buddha at Nigatsudo Hall in Todaiji Temple.

The ritual originates from a legend that the deity of Wakasa, who was late for the Shunie ceremony at Todaiji Temple, promised to send the pure water of Wakasa as an apology.